As rumored, Samsung confirmed off a prototype of a folding show right now. Folded, it’s a smartphone. Unfolded, it’s a pill. Neat! Much less neat...

As rumored, Samsung confirmed off a prototype of a folding show right now. Folded, it’s a smartphone. Unfolded, it’s a pill. Neat!

Much less neat: the corporate type of went out of its technique to not actually present very a lot. A prototype was on stage for about 45 seconds, and it was intentionally backlit to be intensely silhouetted. They “disguised the weather of the design” to maintain no matter secret sauce they’ve secret.

Discovering that clip of the prototype folding/unfolding means digging via Samsung’s two hour developer keynote, so we went forward and GIF’d it up for you.

Right here’s what it seems to be like going from telephone mode to pill mode:

And from pill mode again to a extra pocket-friendly telephone mode:

Whereas this isn’t the primary folding telephone we’ve seen , it additionally gained’t be the final. With Google formally including help for folding shows into Android as of this morning, it seems like they’ve acquired a purpose to assume numerous producers are dabbling with this idea — sufficient of them, no less than, to make it worthwhile to wire these modifications into the primary Android codebase.

If you wish to see the related little bit of the Samsung keynote for your self, it begins juuuust earlier than the 1 hour and 25 minute mark within the stream embedded beneath: